A fork of the Sauerbraten called Extended Death Match has been released. This fork adds new gameplay and engine features to the Sauerbraten engine.
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Terra Soft Solutions’ CEO KaiStaats has made a few posts of interest to the
Plain and simple –the vast majority of Linux apps will not take advantage ofthe SPEs. The Cell is neither a traditional multi-core nor a collection ofDSPs. Special compile time libraries and some pretty serious re-coding arerequired to take advantage of the 6 available SPEs.
At boot, YDL shows 2 PPUs (one real, one a hyperthread) and 6 SPEs … but totake advantage of them is another story.
Next, Staats
Flash Player 9 Beta is now available for Linux, but not for the Powerarchitecture. Fortunately, Adobe offers a ‘feature request’ form:
I ask each and every one of you to submit your request for Flash for YellowDog Linux in order to showcase the strength of our userbase with enthusiasmfor the forthcoming Sony Playstation 3.
I encourage you to complete the form as follows in order that we speak with asingle, simple voice making less complicated their support initiative.
The
It seems we have not mentioned this game before, but as we do not get many racing games:
ManiaDrive is a full featured free clone of the stunt car racer TrackMania with everything that you expect. The latest Version is the bugfix release 1.2 from the 21. August.
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The Linux hardware review site Phoronix have posted their impressions of ATI’s latest driver release. They also maintain the Redblog, a journal devoted to ATI graphics and Linux.
Version 1.4.1 of Hammer of Thyrion, a Hexen II port, has been released. 1.4.1 contains major bug fixes and several enhancements, such as on-the-fly changing of text and hud size and a new hexen2 dedicated server application.
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A reader notified us that Wah!Cade, an xmame frontend, is now at version 0.14. Changes:
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PyChess, a chessgame writting using pygtk and python-sqlite2, is now at version 0.4. At this point it’s only for playing against engines and local human players; it’s also a weak chess engine, to allow people to use PyChess out of the box.
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